Grammar
Can I give … ?
Yes, of course.
Yes, you can.
No, you can’t.
Vocabulary
Farm animals: horse,
cow, ducks, sheep,
chickens
Food: apple, carrot,
bread, biscuits, cake, ice
cream, banana, mango
Grass
Grammar & Functions
Checklist
Talking about farm
animals and food
items
Using indirect
objects
Revision of farm
animals and food
items
Can I give the horse an
apple?
Contents
Aims
Year 6
Lesson6
Two master
handouts: food
anagrams and
Consequences
activity
(one individual
handout
one group work
handout)
Language Analysis
Grammar:
A sentence that contains an action verb and a direct object may also contain an indirect
object. The indirect object is the indirect receiver of the action expressed in the verb.
Here's an example: Anna gives a horse an apple.
The action verb is gives. You can first find the direct object by asking Gives what? The
answer, of course, is apple. Apple is therefore the direct object because it is the direct
receiver of the action of giving.
What, then, is the word horse? Horse is the indirect object: horse indirectly received the
action of giving because he got the apple, the thing that was given.
So an indirect object receives the action in the verb indirectly by receiving the direct object:
a horse (the indirect object) received the apple (the direct object).
In other words: the indirect object tells us where the direct object is going.
Pronunciation:
We usually stress can in short answers. We say:
Yes, you can /kæn/
No, you can’t /kaːnt/
***
biscuits /ˈbɪskɪts/
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Procedure
Warm-up Off the screens
1.
2.
3.
Give out Handout 1.
Ask students to write types of food correctly and match them with the pictures.
Ask them to check in pairs when they finish.
Key:
1 e (biscuits) 2 c (apple) 3 g (ice-cream) 4 b (mango) 5 f (carrot)
6 a (bread) 7 d (cake)
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Screen 2
Audio 1:
Ben: The animals are hungry. Can you
give them some food?
Kim and Jill: Yes, of course!
Jill: Can I give the horse an apple?
Lucy: Yes, of course.
Audio 2:
Jill: Can I give the rabbit a carrot?
Lucy: Yes, of course.
Audio 3:
Jill: Can I give the ducks some bread?
Lucy: Yes, you can. But don’t give the
ducks a lot of bread.
Audio 4:
Jill: Can I give the sheep some
biscuits?
Kim: Sorry, Jill?
Jill: Oh! Can I give the sheep some
biscuits?
Kim: No, you can’t! Sheep don’t eat
biscuits! They eat grass. Now let’s go
and have lunch.
Exploit the scene by asking the Ss to describe
what they can see. This will help students with
pronunciation and meaning.
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Screen 3
Audio 1:
Jill: Can I give the horse an apple?
Lucy: Yes, of course.
Audio 2:
Jill: Can I give the rabbit a carrot?
Lucy: Yes, of course.
Audio 3:
Jill: Can I give the ducks some bread?
Lucy: Yes, you can.
Audio 4:
Jill: Can I give the sheep some
biscuits?
Kim: No, you can’t!
Key: see pictures above (random
order)
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Screen 4
Key:
1 the cow
2 the rabbit
3 the ducks
4 the chickens
5 the sheep
Screen 5
Key:
1 Can I give the horse an apple?
2 Can I give the rabbit a cake?
3 Can I give the ducks some bread?
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Screen 6
Kim: Yes, of course.
Kim: Yes, you can.
Kim: No, you can’t.
Give the students the instructions for the game
activity.
1.
Click on the Start button and wait for the
words to appear.
2.
When the game stops, say the words
you hear. They make a question.
3.
Choose the correct button and answer
the question.
4.
Repeat as many times as you like.
Additional activity:
1. Give out Handout 2.
2. The game goes like this: a person fills in the first gap, folds the sheet of paper, so
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that no one can see, what he / she has written, and passes it to the person to the
left. This person fills the next gap, folds, and so on as long as all the gaps are filled.
3. Ask your students to play the game. Tell them to use all kinds of objects and
persons / animals they know. The more creative they are, the funnier it gets.
4. Ask each group to unfold their sheets and ask representatives to read them aloud.
e.g. Can Adam give Tom an apple?
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Handout 1
1. scibitus
a)
2. papel
b)
3. cie - cerma
c)
4. gonam
d)
5. torrac
e)
6. beard
f)
7. eack
g)
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Handout 2
Can ........... .......
(who?)
give ..................
(whom?)
.........................?
.........................................
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(what?)
(answer)